What would happen if Karl Marx became a christian what would be the state of this world?

Answer 1

There'd be a few more churches in Russia, but aside from that, not very much. While much is made of it, there is nothing really inherently atheistic about communism. Marx was an athiest, so his version of socialism had an aheistic bent.

In fact, most religions have socialistic overtones to them. A focus on the collective goodwill and living as part of a larger, greater plan is the foundation of many religious traditions.

On the same note, the Soviet Union was a very superstitious and mystical place. The peasants who had their old faith stripped away at best replaced it with a worship of the state.

Answer 2

What if the moon, made of cheese, changed from blue cheese to cheddar? At the age of six Karl's father converted from Judaism (from being Jew) to Christian Protestantism and so the whole family was to conform. I hypothesize that was the spur that drove to question father, mind and religion. As his father was a lawyer, he had much access to such literary works. Essentially any person who knows to differentiate civil society from barbarity and prefers the civil, would make the better Christian. Christianity is not that assurity nor guarantee.

What would be the state of the world if there were no religious wars. There were revolutions long before Karl Marx and there are scads of other social philosophers.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm

'Atheism, as the denial of this unreality, has no longer any meaning, for atheism is a negation of God, and postulates the existence of man through this negation; but socialism as socialism no longer stands in any need of such a mediation. It proceeds from the theoretically and practically sensuous consciousness of man and of nature as the essence. Socialism is man’s positive self-consciousness, no longer mediated through the abolition of religion, just as real life is man’s positive reality, no longer mediated through the abolition of private property, through communism. '

see any ambiguity in that?


http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/index.htm

Answer 3

well, that would be pretty hard since Marx is dead... and he believed religion was a way to keep the masses subdued and complacent.
So if he, during his life of living off of Engels, had decided to believe that there was something good about religion... I guess i don't think anything regarding the state of the world would change.
Freud and Neitzsche believed similar things as Marx regarding religion, i mean, his thoughts weren't unique necessarily....
nothing would change regarding the state of the world.

Now, if you wanna talk about how things might be different if he hadn't written his Manifesto and the proletariat uprising.... now we're talking about something

Answer 4

It would be about the same as it is now.